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December 2015
IN THIS E-BULLETIN
FOUR ARRESTS AT NORTHROP GRUMMAN IN NEBRASKA
PEACE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT PENTAGON
ANTI-NUCLEAR CLIMBERS DEFY PARIS PROTEST BAN, FOUR ARRESTED
ELEVEN ARRESTS AT INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR PLANT
ANTI-DRONE, CLIMATE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT BEALE AFB TWO DAYS IN A ROW
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Four arrested at Northrop Grumman in Nebraska
Four peace activists – Michele Naar, Jessica Reznicek, Frank Cordaro and Mauro Heck – were arrested on Sunday, December 27 at around 7:30 p.m. after being accused of causing damage to the Northrop Grumman building in Bellevue, Nebraska. Someone reported them to the police after seeing at least one of them breaking windows. They were charged with felony burglary and felony criminal mischief.
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Peace activists arrested at Pentagon
Seven peace activists from the Atlantic and Southern Life Communities were arrested at the Pentagon on December 28 in a nonviolent witness to commemorate the feast of the Massacre of the Holy Innocents. They held a large banner which read “Wage Peace – Practice Nonviolence” and sang and prayed before being quickly taken into custody. The group was taken to the Pentagon Police Center and charged with “violation of lawful order” before being released with a February 4 court date.
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Anti-nuclear climbers defy Paris protest ban, four arrested
Four anti-nuclear activists defied the state of emergency ban on public protest in Paris on Wednesday, December 2, climbing up the steel cables beneath the modern Arche de la Defense to hang banners. French environmentalists joined German climbers from the action group Robin Wood in the ascent as the COP 21 climate talks were underway. They first deployed small banners reading “Don’t Nuke the Climate – Stop EPR” (referring to the latest French reactor design). Police were quickly on the scene, including 20 from a specially equipped mountain brigade in town for the event. They pursued the climbers up the cables and prevented a larger banner from unrolling which would have proclaimed “System Change, Not Climate Change!”
The four were taken into custody and charged with disrupting public order and violating the state of emergency before their release some hours later. The action was part of international “Climate Games”, a call to direct action against institutions responsible for climate change.
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Eleven arrests at Indian Point nuclear plant
Eleven anti-nuclear activists were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after stretching yellow caution tape across the main entrance of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant on December 12. The 50 people in attendance were there to protest the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow one of the plant’s two reactors, Unit 3, to continue to operate after its license expired at midnight on Saturday, December 12.
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Anti-drone, climate activists arrested at Beale AFB two days in a row
Eight peace advocates opposed to U.S. drone killing were arrested on the afternoon of December 14 as they walked onto Beale Air Force Base in California to deliver a letter to the base commander calling for an end to drone warfare, and explaining how the military contributes to climate change. Demonstrators called for “Peace for the World, Healing for the Climate” and an end to drone attacks and all wars for oil that cause death, suffering and environmental devastation, including climate change.
The following morning, seven activists were arrested at Beale after blocking the road for 30 minutes.
Read more here.
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